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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8529026" data-attributes="member: 18">The problem with both &quot;Creative solutions&quot; and &quot;Ideation/brainstorming&quot; is typically the thread starters, in my experience.What usually happens is someone has some kind of ideas, and they want solutions or brainstorming.Except actually they don't.What they want is someone to simply either say their approach is right, or to basically write out the approach they've vaguely hinted at or poorly explained, in numbers/rules they can just use. This is a little unfair of course. About 30% of &quot;help me with ideas&quot; threads actually do feature people who want creative solutions and/or brainstorming, and actually do read the responses, respond in a measured way to the responses and so on. But the majority, in my experience, end up with the OP either ignoring 90% of the contributions entirely, or yelling &quot;You're doing it wrong!&quot; at people without really being able to explain exactly what he wants.Also re: arguing, that's applicable to a much wider variety of threads than solutions/brainstorming. For example, with the Vox Machina series, there's obviously no &quot;creative solutions&quot; or &quot;brainstorming&quot; to be applied, only opinions and arguing. Or with threads like &quot;DND2024 is making these changes...&quot; there aren't any &quot;creative solutions&quot; or &quot;brainstorms&quot; to be applied, are there?So brainstorming/creative solutions only even apply to a narrow subset of threads, and even in those, as I noted, most often the OP doesn't actually seem to want what they're asking for and ignores most contributions (with some honorable exceptions).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8529026, member: 18"] The problem with both "Creative solutions" and "Ideation/brainstorming" is typically the thread starters, in my experience. What usually happens is someone has some kind of ideas, and they want solutions or brainstorming. [I]Except actually they don't.[/I] What they want is someone to simply either say their approach is right, or to basically write out the approach they've vaguely hinted at or poorly explained, in numbers/rules they can just use. This is a little unfair of course. About 30% of "help me with ideas" threads actually do feature people who want creative solutions and/or brainstorming, and actually do read the responses, respond in a measured way to the responses and so on. But the majority, in my experience, end up with the OP either ignoring 90% of the contributions entirely, or yelling "You're doing it wrong!" at people without really being able to explain exactly what he wants. Also re: arguing, that's applicable to a much wider variety of threads than solutions/brainstorming. For example, with the Vox Machina series, there's obviously no "creative solutions" or "brainstorming" to be applied, only opinions and arguing. Or with threads like "DND2024 is making these changes..." there aren't any "creative solutions" or "brainstorms" to be applied, are there? So brainstorming/creative solutions only even apply to a narrow subset of threads, and even in those, as I noted, most often the OP doesn't actually seem to want what they're asking for and ignores most contributions (with some honorable exceptions). [/QUOTE]

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